A volunteer arrives at Cape Town at sunrise and joins an ambulance train serving Lord Methuen’s column on its advance toward Kimberley in the Boer War. He describes the battlefields and casualties, the work of evacuating the wounded by rail, and the cleverly built zigzag Boer trenches that British shells could rarely reach.
A brief, clear-eyed eyewitness account, first published to raise money for a soldiers’ relief fund. Download the free EPUB.